If we could get a talk in to something big like JavaOne, that might help adoption, though I have no idea what kind of talks they accept from non-Oracle people (if any).
On 2 July 2016 at 08:57, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In spite of the fact that Log4j 2 has a very compelling story in terms of >> feature set and performance, I get the impression that adoption is quite >> slow. I could be wrong, but how many open source projects use Log4j 2? Or >> even how many Apache projects? >> >> I propose we try to generate some ideas about what we can do to increase >> our uptake. Some things I've been thinking about: >> >> * Rewrite the Wikipedia page on Log4j >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j>. It's mostly about Log4j 1.2 and >> mentions Log4j 2 at the bottom in a footnote. That needs to be the other >> way around in my opinion. The Wikipedia Java logging framework >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_logging_framework> page is even >> worse. >> * The Apache Logging site <https://logging.apache.org/> has no explicit >> mention that Log4j 1 is EOL. >> > I updated the Apache Logging page to mention that Log4j 1 is EOL. > > >> * Only the top page on the Log4j 1 site >> <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/> mentions that the project is >> EOL, but it does so in two modest sentences that don't visually stick out >> and are easily ignored. At the very least the download page needs a mention >> of the EOL and a link to the Log4j 2 project, but it may be good to have a >> notification on every page. >> > I added the EOL announcement to the top of all main pages in the Log4j 1 > site. > > >> * Can we get other people involved in evangelizing log4j 2? It would be >> great if we can make more people enthusiastic so they write blog posts or >> tutorials etc about Log4j 2. >> * How can we incentivise people to convert their project to Log4j 2? >> Maybe start a page on Projects Using Log4j 2 and mention people who did the >> conversion by name? Or some other way? >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Remko >> > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
